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Why GMB is balloting for action in the NHS
For more than a decade the NHS has been subjected to a brutal regime of cuts and there has been no co-ordinated resistance. But a turning point has now been reached, writes HELEN O’CONNOR

GMB UNION has become the first trade union in the country to open a full legal ballot for industrial action in the NHS. 

As GMB members up and down the country are checking their post for their ballot papers, we know that so many of them will be asking how it has come to this. 

How have we reached a situation in this country where NHS staff are so undervalued, where patient neglect and deaths are on the rise and where increasing numbers of people are denied healthcare? 

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